Word: seaports
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...young writer isolated here was hardly a flaming rebel. His favorite form of truancy as a boy was listening to his half-Brazilian mother play the piano and sing Brahms. Papa was a senator of the Baltic seaport town of Lübeck and a prosperous grain merchant: the perfect bourgeois figure for a young artist to revolt against...
...government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski, pushed to the wall by Walesa's challenging Solidarity union, confronted with total economic collapse, and pressured by the furious Soviets, struck back in the classic Communist fashion. Its minions came for Walesa at 3 a.m. at his apartment in Gdansk, the gray Baltic seaport whose windswept shipyards had given birth to Solidarity in August 1980. They hustled him aboard a flight to Warsaw and then held him in a government guesthouse south of the city. They cut off communications with the outside world and imposed martial law. While the people slept, olive-drab tanks...
South Street Seaport, Manhattan. A pet project of Mayor Edward Koch's since he first saw Faneuil Hall Marketplace, the $250 million venture as now envisioned will encompass eleven blocks of New York's oldest neighborhood. It will include expansion of the sprightly but small South Street Seaport Museum, renovation and expansion of the venerable Fulton Fish Market and construction of a pavilion for restaurants and shops that Ben Thompson has designed. To be completed, in its first phase, by the end of 1983, the development, which is a short walk from Wall Street, may bring a little Baltimore pizazz...
...powerhouse of Europe suddenly faces doubts and challenges In the prosperous seaport of Hamburg, some 60,000 young demonstrators, many with their faces painted a ghostly white, marched through the broad streets ten to 15 abreast. They carried signs reading ROCKETS OUT and PEACE WITHOUT WEAPONS. In the same city, just 24 hours earlier, West German Defense Minister Hans Apel was jeered into silence by a congress of devout Lutheran evangelicals, as he tried to explain his government's nuclear defense stand...
...South Street Seaport, Prince Charles and First Lady Nancy Reagan, 59, boarded Publisher Malcolm Forbes' 126-ft. yacht Highlander, but only after Navy and police divers had combed the ship's hull for explosives. Cruising up the Hudson with the Prince and the First Lady were some 60 other guests. They lunched on all-American fare: Long Island duckling, cold Maine lobster, California strawberries in New Jersey heavy cream. "Nobody got seasick," said Prince Charles, patting his stomach, "but I ate too much...